Rep. Jessica Farrar, D-Houston, got a standing ovation from abortion rights supporters packing the gallery when she denounced the abortion legislation before the House and the process being used to consider it.

“Everything about the process related to these abortion regulation bills has smelled of partisan politics,” she said.

The legislation would ban abortion at 20 weeks and impose stricter regulations on the procedure.

Farrar cited the witnesses who came in droves to oppose the legislation before the House State Affairs Committee hearing at which testimony was cut off, and the delay of other bills on Sunday’s calendar in the effort to get to Senate Bill 5, the abortion regulation measure passed earlier in a different version by the Senate.

“The truth is that these bills aren’t about women’s health and they aren’t about the will of the people. They’re about winning Republican primaries,” she said.

Farrar said the proof of that is in a tweet by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst that suggested the aim of the measure was to essentially ban abortion and close clinics.

She said while Republicans have a legislative majority, they can’t ignore the rest of Texas in pleasing GOP primary voters.

“Let me remind you that you also have to convince general election voters to vote for you,” Farrar said. “And Texas women certainly won’t forget to remind you of that.”